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Mor said:
Well, the good news is that my PC can handle it really well at high settings (which is what I always use)
The bad news is that it's taxing as hell and I need to config my fan curves cause' CPU is going places lol

Seriously tho, I don't know day one but right now it is playable. However, it needs some more optimization ASAP but I guess it is in better shape right now?

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Yeah, I've mentioned it before but the game is making my AIO cooler go apeshit. I didn't even know it had a "failsafe mode" that could trigger. I'm still not even sure what actually triggers it, to be honest. I think it's the coolant temp going above 60C but I can't be sure.

I think it may be one of those cases where a high framerate causes the hardware to work needlessly harder because capping the game to 60fps in RTSS seems to have improved my temps somewhat. Not by an insane margin but at least enough that it hasn't gone into failsafe mode ever since. Could be that I simply haven't played long enough yet but I'm optimistic because, when I first capped the game to 60, failsafe mode was still active but I kept playing anyway (my temps were high but still within safe ranges for my hardware) and the temps actually stabilized enough that the cooler came out of failsafe mode on its own while I was still playing.

It's definitely playable for me right now but I really hope they end up fixing this and we don't get a repeat for Part II...
 
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Wrapped up P3P in a little over 72hrs. Been playing it every day since launch and all of it on Deck.

But yea a very good PS2 era JRPG. I did the male campaign. So many great characters. Good story and addicting gameplay. Atlus is really good when it comes to writing. They make sure every character and story angle feels just as important near the end of the game as they did in the start. The way everything progresses always feels fresh. Its something that lacks a lot across the industry but they are great at it. Reminds me a bit of Obsidian with their WRPGs.

The final boss was shit but its pretty much expected with these type of games. It always feels like a tedious endurance run towards the end lol. and dying against the last boss is very punishing :frowning-face-with-open-mouth:

As much as I loved the game I can't put it ahead of P4G or P5R. The story was a bit slow and subtle. Kind of safe but not necessarily in a negative way but just not as ambitious or mysterious as the other Persona games. There was a lot of downtime too in between major monthly events. The story was slow to start and basically nonexistant until the summer months. It does pick up and gets good. Also the first couple of months it felt like every major/minor enemy was weak to lightning attacks. I was spamming Mazio a lot in fights heh. But I'm not gonna be too harsh since this was a weird product of its time. They did great with each new entry and improved in many areas.

If I were to rank these games I would say

P3P = 9.0 out of 10
P4G = 9.5 out of 10
P5R = 10 out of 10.

All three are amazing and must plays if you haven't played them. So happy they put them on Steam.

Not gonna lie I am a bit Persona'd out. A little burned out as I played so much this past year with this and P5R. and P4G before that. I'm good on these games for a long while but if Atlus were to stealth drop SMTV this summer I would buy and play it ofc :anguished-face: The Deck is a wild card in all of this. Its such a great device for these type of games and completely rejuvenated my love for these long old school games. At times it feels like traveling back in time and enjoying the PS2 era in a more convenient way. Hands down the best 540$ I ever spent on gaming hardware. And it really has changed the way I choose what to buy/play these days.

All this talk of P3 remake and honestly I don't know. I mean I could see myself messing with it for a bit in a female playthrough but I don't know if its really needed. And I don't see myself doing an entire playthrough. The story would most likely be identical in the remake so it would feel redundant. This P3P version is old sure but its not some fossil or anything like that. Its better than 95% of JRPGs out there these days. The pacing, cast and art was great. And most importantly playing it felt great.

Also a brief wishlist for Persona 6.

  • Make the cast an older mature college grad or adult life cast. No more high school stuff please.
  • Make the story much darker than 3, 4 and 5. These games had some dark themes to it but still very safe in a lot of places. Make 6 a straight up horror game if needed with more mysteries, deaths, twists etc.
  • And please SEGA make Atlus do a day n date launch with PC. Don't fucking let Sony/Nintendo get their hands on this again with the timed garbage pls.
 
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yuraya said:
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Also a brief wishlist for Persona 6.

  • Make the cast an older mature college grad or adult life cast. No more high school stuff please.
  • Make the story much darker than 3, 4 and 5. These games had some dark themes to it but still very safe in a lot of places. Make 6 a straight up horror game if needed with more mysteries, deaths, twists etc.
  • And please SEGA make Atlus do a day n date launch with PC. Don't fucking let Sony/Nintendo get their hands on this again with the timed garbage pls.
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I have a simple solution instead of playing Persona 6 play this game instead.


I feel like Persona 6 will just be more of Persona 5. I doubt that Persona 6 will be that "dark" the only thing that would make me change my mind would be if ATLUS did something crazy and brought back Devil Summoners in Persona 6. Which I highly doubt they ever would.
 
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toxicitizen said:
Yeah, I've mentioned it before but the game is making my AIO cooler go apeshit. I didn't even know it had a "failsafe mode" that could trigger. I'm still not even sure what actually triggers it, to be honest. I think it's the coolant temp going above 60C but I can't be sure.

I think it may be one of those cases where a high framerate causes the hardware to work needlessly harder because capping the game to 60fps in RTSS seems to have improved my temps somewhat. Not by an insane margin but at least enough that it hasn't gone into failsafe mode ever since. Could be that I simply haven't played long enough yet but I'm optimistic because, when I first capped the game to 60, failsafe mode was still active but I kept playing anyway (my temps were high but still within safe ranges for my hardware) and the temps actually stabilized enough that the cooler came out of failsafe mode on its own while I was still playing.

It's definitely playable for me right now but I really hope they end up fixing this and we don't get a repeat for Part II...
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It's actually the liquid coolant temp, yes, mine reached that threshold too hahaha

But yes, I'm also optimistic tbh ^^
 
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Mivey said:
is it the same one from Yakuza 0? Or do you mean we get to actually drive around in them, ala Mario Cart.
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Yup, you actually drive. It has everything you'd expect in a kart game. Weapons, traps, boosts, etc. And it has a lots of tracks too. Of course the gameplay isn't on the level of Mario Kart or Sonic Racing Transformed but it gets the job done
Mivey said:
is it the same one from Yakuza 0? Or do you mean we get to actually drive around in them, ala Mario Cart.
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Yeah, you actually drive. It has a bunch of tracks, weapons, you can upgrade you kart, etc. Gameplay obviously isn't as good as Mario kart or Sonic Racing Transformed but the effort put into it is impressive.
 
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Buying a new GPU was the trigger for me to finally play Metro Exodus. That game was on top of my wishlist, until Deep Silver sold out to Epic and I lost all interest for playing it. I ignored the game on Steam but got it with Humble Choice, so yeah, here we go.

So far I'm enjoying it. I'm surprised how hardcore/PC focused the game is: no highlighted enemies or objects, no instinct vision, no map filled with icons, lots of PC-specific options like DLSS3 and ray tracing, and there are great lightning effects for my RGB keyboard and mouse.

This makes me even more sad that Deep Silver ruined the relationship between 4A and the PC gaming community out of pure greed... 😔
 
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The 4070 makes me consider upgrading for a second, but the last time I built a PC(November 2020) it traumatized me.

First the power supply was DOA... but I didn't realize because I was waiting so long to get a videocard that I put off building the PC for like 6 weeks, and it was then passed the return window on Newegg. The manufacturer said I would have to pay to have it shipped to them and it would be at least 8 weeks AFTER they received it that I would get a replacement, so I just bought a new one.

Then, everything was up and running, but the stock CPU fan was annoying as fuck, so I bought a replacement... And when I tried to remove the fan/heatsink it ripped the CPU out of the motherboard and a bunch of pins were bent. I called Amazon, and thank GOD it was Thanksgiving in the US, because when they tried to transfer me to the manufacturer it was closed, and the woman at Amazon didn't know what to do, so she just sent me a new one.

Long story short, I am just going to buy my next PC. This was my 3rd or 4th time building my own, but no more! The extra cost is worth not having to deal with that stress.
 
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Mivey said:
I appreciate you answering twice.
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It's to compensate for taking so long.
Ge0force said:
Buying a new GPU was the trigger for me to finally play Metro Exodus. That game was on top of my wishlist, until Deep Silver sold out to Epic and I lost all interest for playing it. I ignored the game on Steam but got it with Humble Choice, so yeah, here we go.

So far I'm enjoying it. I'm surprised how hardcore/PC focused the game is: no highlighted enemies or objects, no instinct vision, no map filled with icons, lots of PC-specific options like DLSS3 and ray tracing, and there are great lightning effects for my RGB keyboard and mouse.

This makes me even more sad that Deep Silver ruined the relationship between 4A and the PC gaming community out of pure greed... 😔
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Exodus is fantastic. I really love this series.
 
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PC-tan said:
I feel like Persona 6 will just be more of Persona 5. I doubt that Persona 6 will be that "dark" the only thing that would make me change my mind would be if ATLUS did something crazy and brought back Devil Summoners in Persona 6. Which I highly doubt they ever would.
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I would really love it if they gave players more choices to make. And not just choices near the end of the game that might decide one persons fate. I want to see choices being made every week and big important choices that have an effect on the rest of the game. Do something like Mass Effect where you can keep your entire party alive by the end or have many die off. But make it constant and throughout the entire game. There needs to be very high stakes and danger for all the party members.

Either way I can't wait to see what they do with P6. P5 was a nice jump over P4 both visually and mechanically. They've been messing around with Unreal Engine and Unity for their last couple games so maybe 6 will looks completely different style wise. And they better not change the turn based combat.
 
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PC-tan said:
I feel like Persona 6 will just be more of Persona 5. I doubt that Persona 6 will be that "dark" the only thing that would make me change my mind would be if ATLUS did something crazy and brought back Devil Summoners in Persona 6. Which I highly doubt they ever would.
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yuraya said:
I would really love it if they gave players more choices to make. And not just choices near the end of the game that might decide one persons fate. I want to see choices being made every week and big important choices that have an effect on the rest of the game. Do something like Mass Effect where you can keep your entire party alive by the end or have many die off. But make it constant and throughout the entire game. There needs to be very high stakes and danger for all the party members.

Either way I can't wait to see what they do with P6. P5 was a nice jump over P4 both visually and mechanically. They've been messing around with Unreal Engine and Unity for their last couple games so maybe 6 will looks completely different style wise. And they better not change the turn based combat.
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My wishlist:
  • College or high school, I don't care, the characters are important
  • make it less like a checklist and more chill again. (not so many "person X is only available at day Y while there is a half moon)
  • don't make the social link and their characters a checklist that you tackle one month after another and the rest of the time they are mostly background characters, or completely irrelevant after maxing them out
  • don't gate most party members behind time progression, I want the majority of party members to be available at the start of the game.And I want to hang out with them.
  • do more events with characters that has nothing to do with social links, getting points for social links, or upping your stats.
  • make all these venues and places you can visit more meaningful besides upping your stats
 
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Kyougar said:
My wishlist:
  • College or high school, I don't care, the characters are important
  • make it less like a checklist and more chill again. (not so many "person X is only available at day Y while there is a half moon)
  • don't make the social link and their characters a checklist that you tackle one month after another and the rest of the time they are mostly background characters, or completely irrelevant after maxing them out
  • don't gate most party members behind time progression, I want the majority of party members to be available at the start of the game.And I want to hang out with them.
  • do more events with characters that has nothing to do with social links, getting points for social links, or upping your stats.
  • make all these venues and places you can visit more meaningful besides upping your stats
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I would also like Persona to return to a rural town similar to Persona 4. Persona 5 has way too many characters that you have to social link with. Fewer characters and more social link levels maybe? I also agree that playing Persona 5 feels like a checklist. Also while Persona 5 menus are stylish, they are readability hell - I would prefer for Atlus to make something cleaner.
 
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fantomena said:
Don't entirely agreed, liked 2033 and Last Light more due to the linear structure, didn't find Exodus open world levels to fit the series.
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I think it worked well. And I get where they were coming from. Confining the player to the metro and the same outdoor environment for a third time would've been tiresome. So they ditched Moscow and the metro and I think that it really paid off.
Even from a story perspective it was really interesting to see what was going on outside of Moscow. Each hub had a distinct visual style and it's own interesting sub-plot. I had a great time with it.
 
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Some new stuff out I wanted plus a bit of treating myself for officially being offered full job after my contract is up. Still have to do the pre-hire stuff like drug testing etc. (which is silly since I've been working for them for 6 months but whatever), but it includes finally having PTO, and a small raise. Plus the security of not being under temp contract!

Been a rough week so good way to end it off at least.
 
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NarohDethan said:
Just came back from the theater, watched Dungeons and Dragons, I had tons of fun, great film
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I'm also considering going to the theater in the next week or two for the very first time since the pandemic started. Evil Dead Rise is calling to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :wd_herewego:


edit: plus there is a B1G1 ticket promo going on from Fandango for it
 
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Aaron D. said:
Heh, Everspace 2 and Against the Storm are my two mains in rotation atm.

E2 - 1000% making a personal Top 10 appearance this year.

AtS - Genre fans DON'T sleep on the current sale. Scheduled EA price hike from $20 to $30 on 4/27 but you can get it for $15 right now. As a new player I'm REALLY digging the opening hours so far.
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AtS is really fun, bought it a while back, but only played the dmeo.
 
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FeedMeAStrayCat said:
I'm also considering going to the theater in the next week or two for the very first time since the pandemic started. Evil Dead Rise is calling to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :wd_herewego:
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Likewise, I'm considering going to the theatre next week for the first time since Avengers Endgame to watch Suzume. I even ordered the Shinkai Uniqlo t-shirts and everything. Going to show up there wearing one like a total nerd 🤓
 
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Hogwarts Legacy is interesting and decent fun so far, but I find the lack of interactivity in the environments to be, I dunno, sad. So much is just static. Eat an apple, roll a globe, pet the cat, talk to certain people, not much so far. Kinda reminds me off Ratchet Rift Apart, a gorgeus game, but the environments were completely static, which was also sad in that game.

Would be fun to just pick up more things, destructible environments (I do have the reparo spell after all) etc.
 
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It's funny that interactivity was mentioned because I came here to talk about a random thing I found in Everspace 2 that surprised me positively.

On the critical path you'll eventually reach a sunny sand planet, with some flaura that lives underground and the whole thing looks like swiss cheese, lots of holes between the surface and the underground and between underground sections.

After the main story moment you're left to explore a bit and I eventually found a 'shadow cat' and getting close to it I could pick it up, which prompted me to find his partner. No markers, no indication, he was just there to be found or missed if the player wasn't interested. The funny part is he doesn't like the sun and will leave if you stay in the sunlight for too long, so you'll have to navigate the underground caverns to find his partner.

After a bit of searching I eventually found it and they'll live happy ever after. Just a random activity that gives the world so much personality and believability.

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I might jump into Evespace 2 finally... I played it a bit when it was first released, and I loved what I played from it, but it was also very, very early and almost none of the content was finished so that didn't feel too good - despite being playable to the end.
 
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Whoever was in charge of setting up default controller settings (specifically sensitivity and accelerations) in Ghostwire Tokyo should never be in charge of setting up anything anywhere ever.
 
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